Newsletter: Week of September 21-25,2009

This Week's Theme:
Community

We will also be learning about:
* Color : Purple
* Shape: Rectangle
*Numbers 5 and 6
* Letters E and F
*Handwriting Letters: M H K
*Nursery Rhyme: Little Boy Blue
*Story: Too Much Noise
*Spelling Words: it at come

Important dates to remember:
September 29th- Kindergarten Night
September 30 -Community Field Trip
October 22nd-Pumpkin Patch

Reminders:

• You may order Scholastic Books online at www.scholastic.com. Click Parents then under Quick Links click Book Club orders . Sign in with our classroom username: kindergartenandres and password: neusecharter2009 to order . Our class receives a free book every time you order.This would be added up to our classroom library.
  

• You may also order books using the flyers that we send home.

• Visit your child's daily folder nightly. Don't forget to initial your child's behavior calendar.

• Make sure you send in your child's Guided Reading (leveled) book everyday. You may put the bag in your child's daily folder.

• Read with your child nightly. Write the book's title in the Reading Log.

• Please visit our classroom blog:http://kindergarten-andresneusecharter.blogspot.com/

• If you have any questions/concerns please give me a call at 919-965-8088 or send email at aandres@neusecharterschool.org or send a note to school if you want to schedule a conference.

• Thank you very much for all your support and cooperation. We greatly appreciate all the help that you extend to our class.

Free Websites

Here are some free websites where your children can learn while having fun :

Alphabet recognition:

http://www.literacycenter.net/letters_en/match_en_uclc.asp#

http://www.seussville.com/titles/flapbook/abc.html

Learning to read:


http://pbskids.org/lions/

http://www.starfall.com/

Learning to read and count:

http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/games/#1

http://pbskids.org/sesame/

School and Home

I dreamed I stood in a studio

And watched two sculptors there

The clay they used was a young child’s mind

And they fashioned it with care.

One was the teacher, the tools she used

Were books and music and art;

One was a parent with a guiding hand

And a gentle , loving heart.


Day after day,

The teacher toiled with touch that was deft and sure,

While the parent labored by her side

And polished and smoothed it o’er.

And when at last their tasks were done

They were proud of what they had wrought,

For the things they had moulded into the child

Could neither be sold or bought.

And each agreed they would have failed

If they worked alone,

For behind the parents stood the school

And behind the teacher , the home.

Newsletter: Week of September 14-18, 2009

This Week's Theme:

Family/Friends/Pets

We will also be learning about:

* Color : Purple
* Shape: Triangle
*Numbers 3 and 4
* Letters C and D
*Handwriting Letters: P B R N
*Nursery Rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard
*Story: Too Much Noise
*Spelling Words: the to is

News! News! News!
* We have already started with Guided Reading , Literacy and Math Centers last week.

* Thanks to all parents who volunteered and will volunteer for the coming days.



Reminders:

*Make sure you send in your child's Guided Reading (leveled) book everyday. We use it for our reading groups. Most of the time , the books we have in school are just enough . So it is important to send it in. You may put the bag in your child's daily folder.

*Visit your child's daily folder nightly. Don't forget to initial your child's behavior calendar.
Please make sure you ask HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills ) questions to your child after reading any book with him/her.

*Read with your child nightly. Write the book's title in the Reading Log.
Have your child practice reading the First Nine Weeks Word List.

*Visit our classroom blog:http://kindergarten-andresneusecharter.blogspot.com/